Hi it's Anna Mason. In this video I'm going to have us think about colour and the way
we need to understand it in order to achieve realism in our paintings.
Analysing colour it's something that's actually pretty complex and it's something that scientists have
struggled with for years.
But there are two aspects of colour that I think are especially important for learning how
to paint it accurately.
Tone and hue.
The tone aspect of colour is how light or dark it is, sometimes this is referred to
as the colour's value.
It's this aspect of colour that is absolutely crucial to painting form and achieving 3D effects.
Because of it's role in creating form, I believe tone is THE most important factor to consider
in your paintings.
The hue aspect of colour is pretty straight forward.
It's what we usually think of when we use the word colour - so this is whether the colour
is, for example 'green' or 'orange'.
It's possible for two colours to be very different in terms of hue, but the same in terms of tone.
For example if we take a look at these two squares:
Their hues are orange and green but if we strip out hue,
you can see that this orange and green are actually the same tone.
Only by capturing variations in both tone and hue as we paint colour can we get a textured, realistic result.
But I'll say it again, so long as you have your hues in the right kind of ballpark, it's
getting the tone right in your painting that will give it realism, 3D effects and the WOW
factor.
There's a complication we need to take account of when we paint colour.
It's the fact that hue and tone are relative.
In other words, the way we perceive colours - both their hue and their tone - depends
very much on the hues and tones we see around them.
Let's take a look at these green squares.
They are exactly the same colour But viewed against a light tone they look
a lot darker than they do against a darker tone.
And here against 2 different hues which are the same tone.
The green square surrounded by blue seems to have a little more yellow and looks duller
than the green square surrounded by red, where the green appears more vibrant, lighter, and
perhaps even a fraction more blue.
So you can see that when we try to colour match while we're painting, it's potentially
really tricky until we've got all the colours in place in the painting.
And as we can't paint everywhere at once, I believe it's best to work in layers, building
up our paint gradually so that we can adjust for tone and hue as we go.
We can work on our light tones, dark tones and midtones, before going into a phase of
tonal adjustments where making an adjustment to one area usually requires us to make an
adjustment to another.
As you practice observing your subjects closely you'll start to see that there's a lot more
going on with colour than first meets the eye.
For example most people when taking a casual look at this hollyhock flower as they walked
past it would say it was white, or at best a creamy white.
But actually when you look at it in lots of detail you can see it's petals actually contain
pale greens, yellows, pinks and greys.
It's observing this nuanced colour detail which will help give your paintings realism.
And capturing all that colour variation is made so much easier if you work larger than
life, which is one of the reasons I love to do that.
I hope this has helped you start to understand colour in the way you'll need in order to
inject realism into your paintings.
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And if you'd like to take one of my tried and tested video classes FOR FREE, hop on
over to AnnaMasonArt.com where you'll find even more resources to help you pick up your
brush and paint the way you've always wanted to.
Remember, you won't improve your painting unless you MAKE the time to paint.
So be sure to schedule in some me-time this week and paint something YOU love.
Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon with another tip for creating watercolours
with 'wow'.
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